The purple cloud
By: by M.P. Shiel ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by John Clute.
Series: Bison frontiers of imagination
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: End of the world -- Fiction; Natural disasters -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence.

As he descends into madness over the years, he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny - and the fate of the human race - are part of a profound, cosmological plan."--BOOK JACKET.